Comments on: A Final Push! https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/03/12/a-final-push/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 14 Mar 2022 15:55:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Melissa Delano https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/03/12/a-final-push/#comment-1452850 Mon, 14 Mar 2022 15:55:18 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190933#comment-1452850 * hope the tours extend into autumn

]]> By: Melissa https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/03/12/a-final-push/#comment-1452846 Mon, 14 Mar 2022 15:47:54 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190933#comment-1452846 Morning! Just made a donation and encouraging my daughter to book a tour when she visits her half sister in London this coming autumn. So exciting! Best of Luck!

]]> By: John Campbell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/03/12/a-final-push/#comment-1452282 Sat, 12 Mar 2022 19:06:44 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190933#comment-1452282 It would be great if one of your more media savvy readers could contact/highlight that ITV seem to have a constant prime time slot for programmes about the Yorkshire ripper or the Soham murders. They show these vile documentaries of violence against women and children and promote these programmes off as entertainment. Why do we have to revisit the Krays, moors murderers, Jack the Ripper etc on a weekly basis I have no idea. Make programmes about something new please ITV.

]]> By: Laura Williamson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/03/12/a-final-push/#comment-1452270 Sat, 12 Mar 2022 17:35:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190933#comment-1452270 Glad to chip in a small amount. The concept of the tours profiting from the appalling murders of women has always sat ill with me, ghoulish and disrespectful. There is so much more to the area, such rich layers of history and you will bring these stories to life. Good luck!

]]> By: Dorothy V. Malcolm https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/03/12/a-final-push/#comment-1452242 Sat, 12 Mar 2022 14:56:45 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190933#comment-1452242 You are a gem, Gentle Author. I’ve been a reader of this blog for years and I still love it to this very day. It never grows old, the writing is always superb, and your love for the East End is palpable.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! xo

]]> By: Elizabeth Howell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/03/12/a-final-push/#comment-1452240 Sat, 12 Mar 2022 14:52:32 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190933#comment-1452240 I am looking forward to booking a tour when we are in London this summer.
It is so important to preserve and represent a neighborhood that as contributed so much fairly and truthfully.

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/03/12/a-final-push/#comment-1452181 Sat, 12 Mar 2022 09:19:41 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190933#comment-1452181 Good luck!

I will forward this to some more people I know who might be interested – and hopefully might contribute!

]]> By: Kay Harding https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/03/12/a-final-push/#comment-1452180 Sat, 12 Mar 2022 09:03:03 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190933#comment-1452180 Why not broaden your interest in the East End to other parts of it ? Perhaps you will?

]]> By: Kay Harding https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/03/12/a-final-push/#comment-1452176 Sat, 12 Mar 2022 08:47:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190933#comment-1452176 Would you like my mother’s story? She always thought of herself as a genuine Cockney East Ender. My parents were both born in Leytonstone just within the sound of bow bells. I had Grand-parents who worked in the white metal trade as it was called then. Probably working with silver. White metal meaning silver that has not got it’s assay mark. To return to my mum she was brought up in Hackney up the road to Bethnal Green.
She knew all the old songs and the old cockney rhyming slang. The way she spoke of Hackney she was proud of it and I don’t see why not even if some would not have her attitude. I don’t see anything wrong in being proud of the East End either.It was a poor area. That’s all. The poor are often the people who created the wealth of this country though they don’t always get much credit for it.

]]> By: Katherine https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/03/12/a-final-push/#comment-1452173 Sat, 12 Mar 2022 08:03:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190933#comment-1452173 This is such a joy! Thank you so much for all your amazing stories.

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